VIP visitor - DG or DJ?

Cirencester Rotary Club was very pleased to welcome the Rotary District Governor Alan Hudson to a recent meeting.

Newly appointed to the role at the beginning of
July, this visit was already his twelfth to Clubs in Gloucestershire and
adjoining counties so he could have been forgiven for being road-weary. In
fact, he gave an energetic and very interesting talk which was interspersed
with music tracks which had personal meaning in his life.

As Club President Shaun Gibson commented, “Alan’s
approach to delivering a number of quite serious messages about Rotary was to
take us on a musical journey through his life – a variation on ‘Desert Island
Discs’ – which made it both interesting and highly entertaining.”

Music tracks covered a wide range of artistes
and styles, from Jimmy Shand, via the Easy Rider film theme, a French band
called Deep Forest and ending with the Moody Blues. The ‘guess-the-track’
competition which accompanied the talk was won comprehensively by one of the
younger Club members – who colleagues suggested had betrayed evidence of a
mis-spent youth.

The Governor congratulated the Cirencester Club on maintaining
overall membership numbers – at a time when this is proving difficult in many
areas - and on their excellent work with local charities, organisations and
communities.

Shaun Gibson reported, “He was particularly impressed by our
work with local children and youth groups, including our technology tournament,
school public speaking competition, young chef, young musician and of course
the now-annual junior biathlon. This was a good opportunity to exchange good
practice and a very sociable evening.”